If we fall in love, we have to expect the best and the worst, because both will happen, right? Sometimes you have the best, and sometimes you have the worst. Or first you have the best, and later you have the worst. So you have to know beforehand, before you fall in love with somebody.

You have to be clear that are you going to take this opportunity, to take this risk, or not? If you are afraid of pain, then don't fall in love. That's my advice.

And if you think love is exciting, worth it to try, then take the risk. No one can guarantee anything, especially the love business. Not even the Master or the Buddha can write you a guarantee certificate that says you would live happily ever after. I doubt it.

All the stories about the prince and princess, they just wrote the beginning; they did not write the end. So all of us children are getting, you know, cheated.

And we always think, you know, Cinderella, and all this kind of stuff... Wait until they got together, or they got a few children! You watch and see!

So, actually, sometimes during the loving relationship, we break up. Maybe that's lucky. At least you have good memories. You have illusion of what it could be, what it might have been, what it would have been “if she didn't leave me” or “if I didn't leave her.”

But if you have the opportunity to live together for a long life, and then no more romantic air. What? Tax bill, telephone bill, electric bill... And then the children's fees and all kinds of things. And you know what?

​Actually, I don't know what is really good. To stay together for all the time, or just to break up in between in order to have a painful but romantic memory and illusion.

Anyhow, any choice has a price, so you take whatever it is.

If you want to keep your relationship, it has a great price. You have to attend to your partner all the time. You have to sacrifice some of your personality, your time, your freedom, your privacy - many other things - in order to keep a relationship going on. Besides, even if you do that, you might not be able to keep it.

Some people don't like a clinging partner, some people don't like a too considerate a partner, some people don't like too good a partner, some people like bad boys or bad girls - it's just a little bit spicy, naughty; they like it. And if you're too conservative, too good, too sweet, too considerate, too “surrender” to every wish and desire of the partner, sometimes you will lose her or him.​So you never know what ticks; you never know what snaps. Just take a risk, if you want. Sometimes, we know all this, but we could not help to prevent it. Then, it's okay, just enjoy while it lasts. That's what I say. And when it goes - good-bye! Yes?

It's painful but let it be. Pain is also a kind of experience. Why do we reject it? Everything, we just take it as it is, and don't dramatize it, don't make it worse. And don't dwell on it. There are many other things, exciting things to do.

If you want to keep your relationship, it has a great price. You have to attend to your partner all the time. You have to sacrifice some of your personality, your time, your freedom, your privacy - many other things - in order to keep a relationship going on. ​